K. N. King

K. N. King
Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: (404) 413-5727
Fax: (404) 463-9912
E-mail: knking (at) gsu.edu

Personal Information

I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, the home of Ohio State University. I attended Case Western Reserve University, graduating with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 1975. After a brief stint at Yale (M.S. in Computer Science, 1976), I spent four years at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1980.

One of my interests is radio broadcasting. I am a volunteer for the Georgia Radio Reading Service (GaRRS), a service for the blind and print-handicapped. I also do a little acting for film and TV. One of my projects was the commercial for EverSet carpet protection. The EverSet brochure can be found here. I can be seen in several recent films that are out on DVD: "Madea's Family Reunion" (in the boardroom scene), "ATL" (walking into the private school), and "Stomp the Yard" (in the restaurant scene at the City Grill). I also worked on "One Missed Call".

I'm an advisor for the GSU chapter of the ACM.

You can find my "off-campus" Web site at knking.com. This site supports my books and short courses. I have two books currently in print: C Programming: A Modern Approach and Java Programming: From the Beginning. The second edition of C Programming: A Modern Approach was published in April 2008.

I am a distant cousin of Sir Winston Churchill and poet Robert Frost. We are all descendants of Thomas Philbrick, who came to the U.S. from England in the 1630s. He testified in a witchcraft trial in 1656.

I have an Erdös number of 4 and a Bacon number of 3, giving me an Erdös-Bacon number of 7.

My wife, Susan Cole, is a GSU graduate who currently works as a Java architect.